Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — GALLAGHER IS “LET GO.” [ARTICLE]

GALLAGHER IS “LET GO.”

Constable Wood trent up to Crown Point, the latter part of last week, and brought here a young f ellow who gave his name as Thomas Gallagher and whom a Monon freight conductor had nabbed in a car, at Fair Oaks, with a bunch of stolen plug tobacco, under his vest. He was examined before Judge Morgan, Tuesday, and after Dept. Prosecutor Austin had got in his evidence, the prisoner’s attorney, R. W. Marshall, made the point that no value had been proven for the stolen good 3. The court held the point well taken and he “Let him go Gallaghei” literally as well as figuratively. Gallagher claimed that a fellow bum stole the tobacco, and compelled him to take charge of it, and an attempt was made to re-arrest him, on the charge of receiving stolen goods, but he had made good use of his liberty, and got out of town.